Dianne Wager

Dianne Wager
Born(1931-10-16)October 16, 1931
Milwaukee
DiedAugust 23, 2011(2011-08-23) (aged 79)
Duarte, California
EducationChouinard Art Institute
Occupation(s)Production designer, art director, set designer
AwardsArt Directors Guild Hall of Fame (2016)

Dianne Wager (October 16, 1931 – August 23, 2011) was an art director, production designer, and set designer for motion pictures and television.

Wager was born in Milwaukee in 1931. She moved to Los Angeles and studied set design and set illustration at the Chouinard Art Institute. In 1964, she was hired by Twentieth Century Fox as a set designer on the television series, Peyton Place. While at Fox, she also worked on the Batman television series and the feature film Fantastic Voyage.[1]

Through the 1970s, Wager worked with Oscar-winning production designer Dale Hennesy. When Hennesy died in 1981 during the production of Annie.[1] She received ADG Award nominations for art direction on Pleasantville (1999) and for set design on Changeling (2008).

Wager died in 2011, an in 2016, she was posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ a b "ADG Awards Journal". Art Directors Guild. 2016. p. 15.
  2. ^ "Art Directors Guild To Induct Four Legendary Women Into Its Hall of Fame". Art Directors Guild. September 8, 2015.
  3. ^ Dave McNary (September 9, 2015). "Four Women Tapped for Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame". Variety.
  4. ^ "Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame Inducts Four Women". The Hollywood Reporter. September 9, 2015.